REVIEWING PROCEDURE

Reviews

Only the articles, which obtained  positive reviews, will be published.

 Steps of reviewing procedure

1. The procedure of reviewing articles is in accordance with the recommendations described in the brochure “Good practices in reviewing procedures in science”.
2. Authors, delivering their articles for a publication in the journal, express their consent to have their articles reviewed.
3. Delivered articles are subject to a general assessment by the Editorial Office and then they are evaluated by reviewers.
4. At least two independent reviewers, employed at different institutions than the author/authors are appointed. The reviewers guarantee independent opinions, lack of conflict of interest, lack of personal and business relationships with the article authors and observing the confidentiality principles.
5. The recommended form of a review is a model, in which the author/authors do not know their identities (so called “double – blind review process”).
6. The results of the review are sent to Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.4, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) under the GNU General Public License, which our publishing house uses.
7. The reviewer delivers a review in which he states explicitly if the article is approved for a publication or that it is rejected.
8. The final decision about a qualification for a publication is taken by the Editorial Staff.

The Editorial Staff of the “Mining Machines” expresses gratitude to all the reviewers for taking duties of reviewing scientific and technical articles. We would like to thank you for your clear-sightness, scrupulosity and punctuality of delivering reviews. Your reviews guarantee keeping high level of our publications and support a scientific development of many authors who publish in our magazine.

Information for reviewers

The Editorial Office kindly asks Reviewers to send their reviews on time.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

The principles of the publication ethics of the “Mining Machines” Editorial Office are based on the best guidelines in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors of journals.

In the case of any suspicion of the fraud or neglect connected with the research process, a preparation of the text and its publication, the journal Editorial Office uses the means aiming at an elimination of such behaviour.
The procedures applied by the Editorial Office encompass, for  example, a request for an explanation, a rejection of the article. In the case when it lacks the authors’ explanations as regards the suspisions,  the Editorial Office can apply for assistance to the institutions dealing with such issues.

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Information for Authors

1. The Editorial Office accepts original articles, unpublished earlier, of the thematic content in accordance with the journal profile.
2. The Editorial Office reserves the right to resign from publishing the article if:

• its subject – matter is not within the journal profile,
• the article does not obtain positive reviews,
• the article is incomplete or contains typographic materials of too low quality,
• the article has not been prepared according to the editorial guidelines.

3. The Author/Authors are required:

• to reveal a contribution of individuals in an elaboration of the publication, but the main responsibility for the content of the submitted article is borne by the author delivering it,
• to show the information about the subjects contributing to a preparation of the publication (thematic, in kind, financial input etc.),
• to mention the person, whose input in a preparation of the publication has been significant and whose name is not among the authors, he/she should be mentioned in the acknowledgements included in the publication.

4. An indispensable condition of publishing the article includes conveying the author and proprietary rights by the author/authors to the KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology (Application Form).
5. All the detected cases of ghostwriting or guest authorship will be brought to light, including
   a notification of the appropriate institutions (institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, associations of scientific editors and so on).
6. The Author/Authors are requested to follow the principles of publishing articles:

• Principles of editing articles in the “Mining Machines” Annual [doc] – Article Template,
• Bibliography – guidelines for authors [PDF].

7. The volume of the article should not be smaller than 6 but not bigger than 10 editorial pages according to the established magazine template.

8. The text, planned for a publication, should be delivered on the above mentioned template in the editing version, via the website https://wydawnictwa.komag.eu/index.php/miningmachines/about/submissions

9. An initial approval of the article is done by the Editorial Office after having checked:

• the content of the publication original, i.e. whether it contains: author’s/authors’ scientific/professional degrees and titles, author’s/authors’ affiliations, title, abstract, preamble (introduction), formulation of subject-matter in clauses, summary, records of literature (bibliography).
• Article Application Form.

10.  The Thematic Editor qualifies the article for reviews.

11. Obtaining positive reviews is a condition of approving the article for a publication – see the Reviewing Procedure.

12. A correction of the article reviewed version by the English Language Editor and the Technical Editor is conducted.

13. The Editor – in – Chief approves the article final version for a publication.

Attention: The Editorial Office does not charge any fees for a publishing process and for an approval of the text (APC – Article Processing Charge).

Forms for collection:

Application Form [doc]

Article Template [doc]

Link extension to Item 5 of the Information for Authors.

Ghostwriting barrier

Readers of Mining Machinery can be assured that the authors of the publication present the results of their work clearly, fairly and honestly, whether they are the direct authors or have been assisted by a specialised body.

The editors require the authors of a publication to disclose the contribution of individual authors to the publication (providing their affiliation, i.e. information on who authored the concepts, assumptions, methods, etc. used to prepare the publication), but the primary responsibility lies with the author submitting the article. The editors require information on the sources of funding for the publication, contributions from scientific research institutions, societies and others.